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How to Research Your Genealogy
Getting Started
- Write down information about your family starting
with yourself and going back as far as you can.
- Record: dates and places of:
- Ask Immediate Family for help filling in the holes
- Ask Extended Family for help with what you can't find
- More
tips can be found here
Genealogy Research on the Web
http://www.familysearch.org/
- database of about 400 million names submitted by
family historians
- access to worlds largest genealogy database
http://www.rootsweb.com/
- Social Security Death Index which contains many
records of those who died after 1962
- Search for others who are working on the same last
name as you
http://www.cyndislist.com/
- contains links to more than 200,000 genealogy
related sites
Finding Good Genealogical Evidence
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| Birth Records |
Wills |
Cemeteries |
| Marriage Records |
Church Records |
Family Bibles |
| Death Records |
Military Records |
Pictures |
| U.S. Census Records |
Newspaper Articles |
local histories |
Several of the above resources can be found
at the following local locations:
Other Web Resources
Free Genealogy Software: www.familysearch.org
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